You know exhaustion over artificial intelligence has reached a pinnacle when people start coming up with slurs to talk about robots. While there are a number of contenders for dissing AI (and people ...

Calling AI a Clanker won’t hurt its feelings. The insult says less about machines and more about the humans who gave them ...

Debate over the song of the summer rages on, but if there were a contest for a word of the summer, one front-runner would surely be the onomatopoeic clanker. In recent weeks, clanker has risen to ...

You could be forgiven if you didn’t know the meaning of every word the tweens and teens in your life are using. With terms like “skibidi,” “6-7” and “41” becoming unavoidable for teachers and parents, ...

Most parents would put a hard stop to anything derogatory and mean coming out of their kids’ mouths. But how do we handle it when the slur is aimed at robots? Yes, this is a real thing that’s ...

He noted that clanker has already had a long life on Star Wars' subreddits, specifically subreddits about the Battlefront video game, and as a meme, where people use it to belittle robots. The reason ...